Masquerade
Artists/Artisans
Design, Aesthetics, Function
Art and politics
Misc.
100
Male and Female headdresses/masquerades that celebrate agriculture and humans' ability to manipulate the earth.
What are Ci Waras?
100
A network popularly used in medieval Africa
What are the Trans Saharan Trade routes?
100
Term for a Togolese woman merchant who is successful in selling wax print to their communities and integral to the authentication of these textiles as West African.
Who is Mama Benz?
100
Ancient Sapi artform that can be argued as formally influential in the representation of humans on Sapi-Portugeuse Ivories.
What are nomoli?
100
A qualitative method that ratios African sculpture as being 1:3, with the head taking up a 1/4 of the entire composition.
What are African proportions?
200
Masquerade performed by women and considered a social and spiritual ritual practice. Traditional costumes cover the entire body of the performer.
Agot Masquerades (Cross Rivers Region)
200
A social and communal way of life by those who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically
What is Nomadism
200
In the Ivory Coast, this is an ensemble of wax print consisting of three parts that covers the entire body.
What is a complet?
200
Provide 3 examples of Dahomey representations/appropriations of European material and visual culture
Adoption of objects as Royal symbols, compositional and representational influences in the bas reliefs of Royal palaces, adoption of some European clothing and accessories, Tents and other Architectural forms, etc.
200
20th century German scholar accredited for his influence in the development of the African Art canon and for his book which brings together photographs of classical African art but devoid of any cultural or historical context.
Who is Carl Einstein
300
The two substyles of the Devil masquerade costume (originating from Ordehlay society). One is more popular in Freetown and is more aggressive and severe while the other is popular upriver and tend to be more ornate and elaborate.
What is fierce and fancy style?
300
This group values invisibility in the practice of engaging with art as it heightens the spiritual potency of the object.
Who are the Baule?
300
Three West African owned textile manufacturers and stores, all of which are part of the Vlisco Group
What are UNIWAX, GTP, WOODIN
300
Provide 2 characteristics of Sapi-Portuguese saltcellars
A focus on the human figure, A clear articulation of parts, Geometric forms of the object itself and its patterns and 2D designs.
300
Scholar Susan Blier has identified these formal qualities that can be seen across the arts of Africa.
What are INNOVATION OF FORM, VISUAL ABSTRACTION SCULPTURAL PRIMACY PERFORMANCE HUMANISM/ANTHROPOMORPHISM ASSEMBLAGE MULTIPLICITY OF MEANING?
400
Miniature masks that are formally similar to masks of the Ge performance that are used as personal forms of identification and status
Ma-Go (passport masks)
400
A spiritual object within Fon-speaking communities that is part of a social ritual between a user, diviner, and the object itself. This act includes adding to and or binding this object.
What is a Bocio? (power object)
400
Three of the several key concepts that scholar Okwui Enwezor argues as essential to African design.
Aspire, Belong, Collaborate, Consume, Digital, Function, Future, Globalization, Identity, Informal, Inspire, Make, Multi-disciplinary, Networks, Politics, Recycle, Style, Sustainable.
400
This event was brought by British imperialists who captured and looted Benin City, stealing over 2000 works fo royal and sacred arts and bringing them back to the UK/Europe.
Benin Punitive Expedition of 1897
400
These two West African kingdoms adopted the practice of decorating the facades of their architecture from their observation of European prints depicting European palaces and interior design.
Benin and Dahomey
500
An annual street festival in the Cross River state of Nigeria that incorporate traditional masquerade and performance with contemporary and diasporic performance. Performers and dancers usually wear elaborate and colorful costumes based on the year's theme.
What is the Calabar Carnival?
500
Provide three examples in which West African communities value, identify, and record the artists/artisans/makers of their culture, especially those that make sacred and/or spiritually charged objects.
Oriki praise poem, oral history and memory, by region/place, authorship is not given to maker but other actors who use and engage with these objects.
500
Discuss how this furniture considers traditional West African ways of life with contemporary concerns of social life and climate and waste.
Traditional practices of sitting and hosting guests with a contemporary consideration for the state of face-to-face interaction in the digital age. The furniture is also made with recycled material to mitigate waste and environmental impact.
500
Discuss the history of Western opinions and views of West Africans from pre-modern contact and trade up until the colonial period.
Early contact rather equitable and considered important allies in trade and geopolitics, the interest in spreading Christianity brought many missionaries to the continent beginning in the medieval period, by the 19th century Western opinions still valued African trade partners but began to control those resources themselves, the slave trade objectified the West African, this with the development of the pseudoscience behind race shifted attitudes away from Africans as allies to Africans as additional resources that can be exploited along with their homelands.
500
This mosque is the tallest mud-brick structure in the world. Provide another mud-brick mosque in West Africa that goes through the same process of maintenance.
Mosque of Agadez (1515) in Niger.
Another is the Great Mosque at Djenne.